Washington, Aug 28 (IANS) A common vitamin may potentially provide a powerful tool to fight 'superbugs', antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus infections that health experts view as a threat to public health.The research ... Read more...

Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) An eye hospital in Kolkata has introduced an innovative method of 'Auto blood Conjunctival Graft Fixation' surgery for treating Pterygium patients with their blood.Pterygium is a ... Read more...

New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Anchor-actress Mandira Bedi, who is expecting her first child, was Thursday appointed the official brand-ambassador of Cryo-Save, a stem cell bank. In her new role, ... Read more...

London, April 19 (IANS) A simple injection administered to patients even 12 hours after a heart attack or stroke could cut down their crippling effects by more than half.
British-based ... Read more...

New York, Mar 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) It is undisputed fact that smoking is harmful to health but researchers have found another reason why smoking is not such a good decision.Scientists in United ... Read more...

Toronto, Feb 25 (IANS) Researchers have detected the presence of a mind boggling 4,229 compounds in human blood samples, up from the dozen or so listed medically, based on a three-year exhaustive ... Read more...

London, Feb 15 (ANI): IBM's supercomputer Watson will compete against two humans in a TV quiz for the prize of a million dollars.Jeopardy tests a player's knowledge of trivia in a range ... Read more...

London, Nov 08 (ANI): Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.The breakthrough could mean that in the foreseeable future people needing blood for surgery, ... Read more...

London, Nov 3 (ANI): A new study has found that a drug derived from blood could halt and even reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease.Early trials of Kiovig have demonstrated that the ... Read more...

Islamabad, Oct 7 (IANS) Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's admission that his country had set up militant groups in Kashmir has drawn vehement criticism from the Pakistani media, with one paper ... Read more...

Washington, Sep 15 (ANI): A new cost-effective rabies therapy developed by MassBiologics at the University of Massachusetts and the Serum Institute of India has taken an important step forward with positive ... Read more...

By Gina Gomez
Aug 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A leading pest control company has made a surprising survey and released a list of the 15 most bed-bug infested cities yesterday. This startling revelation was ... Read more...

Moscow, June 20 (IANS) Bed bugs have been making life difficult for people in the Russian capital and figures from the country's official health watchdog show the population of the blood-sucking ... Read more...

Washington, June 11 (IANS) Silk could provide a sophisticated new way of monitoring health, according to a new study.
Peter Domachuk, physicist from the University of Sydney, and his colleagues have created ... Read more...

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Scientists in France have discovered a new bacterial species in the gut of the fly that transmits African sleeping sickness. They say that the bacteria could be engineered ... Read more...

Auckland, April 24 (IANS) A couple ordered burgers at a popular restaurant chain here and were shocked to find one of them soaked with human blood, a media report said Saturday.
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By Ranjan Bhaduri
London, Feb 28, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A brand new device called micro ear might just change the realm of technology as researchers claim. The scientists back at the Glasgow University ... Read more...

Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): Scientists have successfully removed CCR5 - a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need - from human cells.Individuals ... Read more...

Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Despite decades of rigorous research, it has remained an enigma how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle. But now, scientists at the University of California, Riverside, ... Read more...

London, Feb 4 (IANS) Following a medical breakthrough, pig lungs could be transplanted into humans to overcome a shortage of donor organs, a media report said Thursday citing Australian scientists.
Scientists have paved ... Read more...

London, Feb 4 (ANI): Scientists in Melbourne, Australia have made a medical breakthrough which has moved the use of pig lungs in transplants into humans a step closer.Experts, who used a ventilator ... Read more...